{"id":23763,"date":"2021-07-19T07:00:33","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T11:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=23763"},"modified":"2021-07-20T12:53:53","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T16:53:53","slug":"good-news-lotto-winner-wants-to-help-military-vets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/good-news\/2021\/07\/good-news-lotto-winner-wants-to-help-military-vets\/","title":{"rendered":"GOOD NEWS: Lotto Winner Wants To Help Military Vets"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 41-year-old man from the York Region who won a $65-million lottery jackpot said he wants to use the money \u201cto try to make the world a better place.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jansen Ng, an occasional lottery player from East Gwillimbury, Ontario, bought a Lotto Max ticket for the July 6 draw at a local gas station while he was out playing Pokemon Go.<\/p>\n

“I had heard on the news that the jackpot had been won in my local municipality of York Region, but it didn\u2019t really click that it could be me. A few days after the draw, I went to check the ticket on a ticket checker, and the message said, \u2018Please see retailer.\u2019 I thought the ticket checker was malfunctioning and decided to check the ticket at home on the OLG Lottery App.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It was then when Ng saw the words \u201cbig winner,\u201d but he didn\u2019t believe them to be true, so he checked on a couple of other devices.<\/p>\n

Finally, Ng went back to the store with his ticket and the terminal announced he won.<\/p>\n

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After Ng realized he won the jackpot, he got super excited and visited his pastor for spiritual and moral advice.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt the responsibility of this win immediately. I wanted to be sure to use this money responsibly, so I felt my pastor was the best person to work through that with me.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ng said he plans to continue to support the charities he works with and that he\u2019s looking at ways to set up other organizations and non-profits.<\/p>\n

Ng is a former military member, and during his service, he experienced a traumatic brain injury that led to his retirement. As a result, he plans to help other veterans deal with non-visible injuries that lead to worsened quality of life.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt one point, I was almost homeless because I didn\u2019t know how to deal with my injury. I was struggling with making decisions and some of the things I did were strange and irrational, but I kept the true cause hidden from the people around me. I hope to help some who are struggling as I did without having to face more personal hardships.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When it comes to future splurges, Ng said he wants to buy a new electric car to replace his current hybrid vehicle.<\/p>\n

Ng insists his new wealth won\u2019t change him, though. He said he still plans to donate blood every two months and to cut his own hair.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople buy lottery tickets because of hope. Hope has been diminished a bit for some because of the pandemic, but I want to encourage everyone to hang in there. Look forward to tomorrow. Who knows, you might win the lottery as well.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 41-year-old man from the York Region who won a $65-million lottery jackpot said he wants to use the money \u201cto try to make the world a better place.\u201d","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":23768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3096],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-good-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 17:21:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/good-news\/2021\/07\/good-news-lotto-winner-wants-to-help-military-vets\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23766,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23763\/revisions\/23766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}